Fortalecimiento de la competencia comunicativa en Inglés a partir de la identificación de los estilos de aprendizaje de los estudiantes de educación media de la Institución Educativa Laura Vicuña en Chía

Abstract

Once the teachers had observed in students a great lack of motivation, a low interest and predisposition for interacting in English class, are sufficient reasons to teachers ask: ¿Which are the interests, needs and preferences of students to participate more actively in English class? teachers consider necessary to know better students ‘needs, likes and preferences the same as students own way to learn considering that it permits to design some classroom activities to promote them to participate more actively in English class or any topic in different subjects. This project finds that these classroom activities must suit students´ learning styles in order to obtain a better learning in the process of teaching a foreign language. Learning style is the preferred way to access knowledge and results from variables of personality, psychological, cognitive and emotional characteristics, the socio-cultural context and educative experience. The knowledge of individual strengths and weaknesses has an important effect in language learning. For this reason, the expectative of this research is if teachers consider learning styles in the different classroom activities, students have better results in the acquisition of a new language